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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, addle, addle the wits, amaze, baffle, ball up, bamboozle, beat, becloud, bedazzle, befuddle, befuddlement, bewilder, bewilderment, boggle, bother, botheration, buffalo, bug, can of worms, chaos, cloud, complex, confound, confuse, confusion, conglomeration, daze, dazzle, discombobulate, discombobulation, discomfit, discomfiture, discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disturb, disturbance, embarrass, embarrassment, entangle, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, get, gordian knot, haze, hodgepodge, intricacy, jumble, jungle, keep in suspense, knot, labyrinth, lick, meander, mesh, mess, miscellany, mishmash, mist, mix up, moider, morass, muddle, muddleheadedness, muddlement, mystify, nonplus, perplex, perplexity, perturb, perturbation, pother, pucker, put out, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, ravel, ruffle, shuffle, skein, snafu, snake pit, snarl, stew, stick, stump, sweat, swivet, tangle, tangled skein, throw, throw into confusion, tizzy, unsettle, unsettlement, upset, web, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness

Dictionary Results for maze:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

maze
    n 1: complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to
         get lost [syn: maze, labyrinth]
    2: something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government
       regulations" [syn: tangle, snarl, maze]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maze \Maze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mazed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Mazing.]
   To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to
   amaze. --South.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maze \Maze\ (m[=a]z), n. [OE. mase; cf. OE. masen to confuse,
   puzzle, Norweg. masast to fall into a slumber, masa to be
   continually busy, prate, chatter, Icel. masa to chatter,
   dial. Sw. masa to bask, be slow, work slowly and lazily, mas
   slow, lazy.]
   1. A wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of
      bewilderment.
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   3. A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages;
      an intricacy; a labyrinth. "Quaint mazes on the wanton
      green." --Shak.
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            Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook.
                                                  --Wordaworth.
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            The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,
            Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.
                                                  --Addison.
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   4. A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes
      bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.
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   Syn: Labyrinth; intricacy. See Labyrinth.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maze \Maze\, v. i.
   To be bewildered. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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